Ståle Solbakken

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Ståle Solbakken

1996: Solbakken at Lillestrøm.
Personal information
Date of birth February 27, 1968 (1968-02-27) (age 40)
Place of birth    Kongsvinger, Norway
Playing position Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club F.C. Copenhagen (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
0000-1989
1989-1994
1994-1997
1997-1998
1998-2000
2000-2001		 Grue I.L.
Ham-Kam
Lillestrøm S.K.
Wimbledon F.C.
AaB
F.C. Copenhagen
100 (35)
099 (34)
006 0(1)
081 (13)
014 0(4)   
National team
1994-2000 Norway 058 0(9)
Teams managed
2002-2005
2006-present		 Ham-Kam
F.C. Copenhagen

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Ståle Solbakken (born February 27, 1968) is a Norwegian football coach and a former player, who is the manager of Danish club F.C. Copenhagen. He played 58 matches and scored nine goals for the Norwegian national team during the end of the 1990s, and represented Norway at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship tournaments.

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[edit] Biography

He started his career in Norway, playing for lower league team Grue I.L., where he stayed for five years. In 1989, he went to Hamarkameratene in the secondary Norwegian 1st Division, with whom he won promotion for the top-flight Tippeligaen championship in 1991. He went on to Tippeligaen rivals Lillestrøm S.K. in 1994, and was subsequently called up for the Norwegian national team.

He had a short stay abroad at English club Wimbledon F.C. in 1997. In his six league games for Wimbledon, Solbakken scored one goal and was twice named "man of the match", but he was banned from club training by manager Joe Kinnear shortly thereafter.

He was sold to Danish side Aalborg BK the same year. At Aalborg, he became the undisputed team leader. He guided the club to the 1999 Danish Superliga championship, as well as the final of the 1999 Danish Cup. He was awarded as player of the year in Danish football in 2000. Solbakken let it be known that he wanted a move to a bigger league, but he was eventually sold to Danish league rivals F.C. Copenhagen. His career ended brutally there (see below).

The next year, Solbakken started his career as a coach at the Norwegian club Hamarkameratene in Norwegian secondary Adeccoligaen division. He had great success at Hamarkameratene, as the club won the league and was promoted the top-flight Tippeligaen. The next season, Solbakken managed Hamarkameratene to a fifth place in the Tippeligaen 2004 season. In late 2005, Solbakken was named as new manager of his former club F.C. Copenhagen (FCK). He managed FCK through to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, after beating Ajax Amsterdam in the final qualifying round on August 23, 2006.

[edit] Heart attack

During training on March 13, 2001 Solbakken had a heart attack. He was attended to rapidly by the club doctor Frank Odgaard who upon noticing something was very wrong tried to find his pulse and noticed his heart had stopped beating. He asked a player to call an ambulance and to tell them it was critical, whilst he continued to administer cardiac massage. Upon the ambulance arrival, he was pronounced clinically dead at the scene.

Amazingly on the way to the hospital he was revived nearly twelve minutes later in the ambulance. He survived the episode and now has a pacemaker fitted. The heart attack was the result of a previously undetected heart defect.

[edit] Honours

Player
Manager

[edit] References

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Norway squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Grodås • 2 Halle • 3 Johnsen • 4 Berg • 5 Bjørnebye • 6 Solbakken • 7 Mykland • 8 Leonhardsen • 9 T. Flo • 10 Rekdal • 11 Jakobsen • 12 Myhre • 13 Baardsen • 14 Heggem • 15 Eggen • 16 J. Flo • 17 H. Flo • 18 Østenstad • 19 Hoftun • 20 Solskjær • 21 Riseth • 22 Strand • Coach: Olsen
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F.C. Copenhagen – current squad

1 Christiansen • 2 Pospěch • 3 Jensen • 4 Nørregaard • 5 Laursen • 6 Würtz • 7 Aílton • 9 Nordstrand • 10 Grønkjær • 13 Hutchinson • 14 Gravgaard • 15 Antonsson • 17 Wendt • 18 Júnior • 22 Bertolt • 23 W. Kvist • 24 Sionko • 25 Zanka • 26 Hansen • 27 Neestrup • 28 Laudrup • 29 L. Qvist • 41 Coe • Manager: Solbakken
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F.C. Copenhagen – Managers

Johansen (1992–92) • Kristensen (1994) • Johansen (1994–95) • Schäfer (1995–96) • Brink (1996–97) • Karlsson (1997–98) • Brink (1998) • Andersen (1999) • Brink (1999–2000) • Hodgson (2000–01) • Karlsson (2001) • Holmstrøm (2001) • Backe (2001–05) • Solbakken (2006–)
Persondata
NAME Solbakken, Ståle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solbakken, Ståle
SHORT DESCRIPTION footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968-2-27
PLACE OF BIRTH Kongsvinger, Norway
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH